Researchers

TSURUTA Tadasu

TSURUTA Tadasu
Professor
Faculty Department of Environmental Management / Graduate School of Agriculture
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/read0165415

Education and Career

Education

  • - 1990 , Kyoto University, Faculty of Literature,
  • - 2000 , Kyoto University, Graduate School, Division of Agriculture,
  • 1986/04 - 1990/03 , Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters,
  • 1991/04 - 2000/03 , Kyoto University, 農学研究科,

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2016 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture 教授
  • Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2015 , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture 准教授
  • Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2006 , Kindai University Faculty of Agriculture 講師
  • Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2001 , 京都大学研修員、龍谷大学非常勤講師

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences, Sociology
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Agricultural sociology
  • Humanities & social sciences, Agricultural and food economics

Research Interests

agro-pastoralism in Africa, モラル･エコノミー, スワヒリの社会史, タイ農村社会, フェアトレード, social history of Swahili, Thai rural society, fair trade

Published Papers

  1. Introduction: Endogenous Innovation in Rural Africa - Technical Change as a Socio-Cultural Process
    Tadasu Tsuruta; Kaori Komatsu
    Journal of African Studies  (103)  , 1-9, Aug. 2023  , Refereed
  2. Introduction: Characteristic Features of Agricultural Innovation in Africa
    Tadasu Tsuruta; Kaori Komatsu
    Journal of African Studies  (101)  , 1-8, 2022  , Refereed
  3. The Stress-reducing Effects of Gardening Activities and Images of Farming: A Case Study on a Farming Experience Tour in Chiba Prefecture
    Koji Marutani; Takuji Yamaguchi; Ailing Hu; Yoshibumi Chiba; Akio Mizushima; Koichi Ikegami; Tadasu Tsuruta
    Journal of the Japanese Society of People-Plant Relationships  20  (2)  , 49-57, 2021  , Refereed

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Books etc

  1. Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto , 池上 甲一; 松平尚也; 山本奈美; 黒田 真; 鶴田 格 , 第5章 , 第5章 , 明石書店 , Oct. 2024
  2. アフリカから農を問い直す: 自然社会の農学を求めて , 杉村 和彦; 鶴田 格; 末原 達郎 , 京都大学学術出版会 , Feb. 2023
  3. Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy , Yuko Sugiyama; Tadasu Tsuruta , 第4章担当 , 第4章担当 , Langaa RPCIG , Mar. 2021

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Conference Activities & Talks

  1. Characteristic Features of Grassroots Agricultural Innovation in Africa , Tadasu Tsuruta , 10th European Conference on African Studies , 28, Jun. 2025
  2. アフリカ農民はなぜ国家に捕捉されないのか：比較文明史的視点からの考察 , 鶴田 格 , 一般社団法人・アフリカ協会 第10回学術研究会 , 16, Oct. 2024
  3. Rethinking Degrowth from 'Uncaptured' Agriculture and Peasantry in Africa , Tadasu Tsuruta; Yuko Yamane , 9th European Conference on African Studies , 3, Jun. 2023

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MISC

  1. アフリカ農民はなぜ国家に捕捉されないのか：比較文明史的視点からの考察 , アフリカ , 64 , 10 , 15 , Dec. 2024
  2. Non-Agrarian Features of Agriculture and Villages in Africa , Tadasu Tsuruta , Journal of African Studies , 104 , 58 , 59 , Dec. 2023
  3. A Preliminary Report on Diversity of Products in Organic Farmers’ Markets in Surin, Northeast Thailand , TSURUTA Tadasu; Suriya Chanachai , Memoirs of the Faculty of Agriculture of Kinki University , 49 , 67 , 80 , Mar. 2016

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Empirical Research on Sustainability and Resilience of Family Farming: A Comparison between Africa and Southeast Asia , Kindai University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Collecting Fragmented Knowledge, Connecting Generations: A Socio-ecological Research on the Reorganization of the Local Food Culturepool in Rural Areas , Hirosaki University
  3. 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, アフリカ農民の生計における小規模な現金獲得活動と「在来の技術革新史」への視角 , 弘前大学

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